Drawing tools

Drawing in BDKanvas is quite similar to many other drawing tools. Three different tools are available:

  • Brush tool
  • Line tool
  • Image tool

Brush tool draw-brush

This is a free drawing tool that allows you to freely draw any shape that you want. The available options on the brush tab are:

  • Line color: the color of the line.
  • Line width: the width of the line in pixels. Take into account that this width is not zoom dependent, it will be maintained regardless of the zoom level that you have.
  • Closed line: the beggining and the end of the line will be linked together.
  • Filled: the line will be filled with the given color.
  • Fill color: if filled is selected, this color will be used.
  • Dashed line: the line will be drawn as a dashed line.

Line tool draw-line

This tool can be used to draw straight lines. The available options on the line tab are:

  • Line color: the color of the line.
  • Line width: the width of the line in pixels. Take into account that this width is not zoom dependent, it will be maintained regardless of the zoom level that you have.
  • Dashed line: the line will be drawn as a dashed line.
  • Initial and/or final arrow: the edges of the line will be drawn as arrows.

Image tool insert-image

This tool can be used to insert an image. Once clicked, the user will be able to select a file to insert it on the page. Take care, as big images may take some time to synchronize with other clients if connected to a server and the connection is slow.

You can also insert an image by copying/pasting it from other programs.

If you select the image, the image tab will allow you to check whether the aspect ratio must be maintained when scaling it.